/lit/ - Literature

>>20538694
She's so cute.

I've heard "100 years of solitude" is pretty much about it. It's even in the name.

>>20538693
Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Homo Faber

>>20538693
Thread theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtC2Xr9_wGQ

>>20538693
Steppenwolf

>>20540530
dISsOnANCE

>>20540568
>altcaps

My diary desu

>>20538693
My diary.

>>20540568
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarJ-MbdgHg

>>20538693
Also sprach Zarathustra

>>20540693
kek

>>20540437
No.

the only acceptable suggestion for your request, OP

>>20538693
Just read /lit/

pretty comprehensive collection

>>20540437
Really not though.

>>20541249
why is Philip Larkin on here?

>>20541375
I didn't make this list but I'd guess it's because of Philip Larkin's disenchantment with the modern world, and his description of its loneliness and boredom.

>>20541249
no No Longer Human?

>>20542464
Again, didn't make this list. No Longer Human would be there if I did, along with Demian.

>>20541249
I know you didn't make the list but Confederacy of Dunces really doesn't fit here. It's comical and cheery in its tone compared to the other books on there and at the end Ignatius hooks up with and goes on the run with an equally as crazy Marxist chick.

>>20542626
I've never read Confederacy of Dunces, but yeah the r9k reading list is mostly but not completely on loneliness. There's bound to be one where he runs off with some chick.

>>20540437
The entire thing is about family.

>>20540516
Isnt that blade runner?

>>20542765
Dude…

>>20538694
just ordered this now, hope it’s good :)

>>20542626

You could say the same about My Twisted World. It's one of the genuinely funniest books I've ever read. The tone of sincere, offended hubris and sense of comic timing are unmatched.

>>20538693
The Box Man.

>>20538693
the book of disquiet

Here's a question, is there a good book about loneliness that isn't coupled with severe mental illness? Tired of reading about a lonely isolated person and it always turns out it's because they're mentally ill. That's fine, but it feels like every fucking book I've read is about that. Sometimes circumstances lead people to loneliness. Or simply a lack of initiative.

>>20543932
>You could say the same about My Twisted World. It's one of the genuinely funniest books I've ever read.
Anything you can quote?

>>20543932
MTW is unintentionally hilarious, and yeah now that you mention it some episodes in it could have come straight out of Confederacy of Dunces (him getting literally thrown out of a party, breaking his leg from the fall, and hobbling back because he realized he forgot his designer glasses only to get kicked out again, glassesless).
But it's got no literary merit on its own

>>20543967
the tartar steppe

>>20543995
>But it's got no literary merit on its own
i only skimmed it but i don't think he ever actually talked to a woman in the entire book. i think writing a book about loneliness but then never having the protagonist actually talk to a woman is something a "literary" author would try in order to make a point, but he just did it naturally.

>>20544083
He expected them to throw themselves at him; he probably considered the thought of actually coming onto a girl himself beneath his twinkish English nobility

>>20543967
Those mental illnesses are often the product of loneliness.

>>20541249
>no A Disaffection
shame

>>20538693
A man asleep